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Ward C. Wheeler publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ward C. Wheeler sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 202 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ward C. Wheeler D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ward C. Wheeler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 77 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ward C. Wheeler is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. They have contributed extensively to Molecular Biology and Genetics, as well as to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Paleontology.

The main topics covered in their work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, and Subterranean Biodiversity and Taxonomy.

Ward C. Wheeler's recent published papers include the following:

  • "Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida," 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Evolution in the Genus Rhinella: A Total Evidence Phylogenetic Analysis of Neotropical True Toads (Anura: Bufonidae)," 2021, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
  • "Phylogenomic Resolution of Sea Spider Diversification through Integration of Multiple Data Classes," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "The phylogeny of Dendropsophini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)," 2020, Cladistics
  • "Phylogenetic relationships of the Boana pulchella Group (Anura: Hylidae)," 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Frequent coauthors in Ward C. Wheeler's body of work include:

  • Julián Faivovich
  • Mariana L. Lyra
  • Taran Grant
  • Victor G. D. Orrico
  • Diego Baldo

The researcher has published regularly in various venues, including:

  • Cladistics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • MorphoBank datasets

Ward C. Wheeler has also contributed to book publications, such as "Evolution in the genus Rhinella: a total evidence phylogenetic analysis of neotropical true toads (Anura: Bufonidae)," published in 2021 by New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History (eBooks).

Best Publications

  • THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE

    Darrel R. Frost;Taran Grant;Taran Grant;Julián Faivovich;Julián Faivovich;Raoul H. Bain

  • Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

    Casey W. Dunn;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol;David Q. Matus;Kevin Pang

  • SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE FROG FAMILY HYLIDAE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HYLINAE: PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS AND TAXONOMIC REVISION

    Julián Faivovich;Célio F.B. Haddad;Paulo C.A. Garcia;Darrel R. Frost

  • The Strepsiptera problem: phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology.

    Michael F. Whiting;James C. Carpenter;Quentin D. Wheeler;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS OF DART-POISON FROGS AND THEIR RELATIVES (AMPHIBIA: ATHESPHATANURA: DENDROBATIDAE)

    Taran Grant;Taran Grant;Darrel R. Frost;Janalee P. Caldwell;Ron Gagliardo

  • OPTIMIZATION ALIGNMENT: THE END OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT IN PHYLOGENETICS?

    Ward C. Wheeler

  • Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Ward C. Wheeler

  • The Phylogeny of the Extant Hexapod Orders

    Ward C. Wheeler;Michael Whiting;Quentin D. Wheeler;James M. Carpenter

  • SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT, PARAMETER SENSITIVITY, AND THE PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR DATA

    Ward C. Wheeler

  • The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

    Ward C. Wheeler;Jonathan A. Coddington;Louise M. Crowley;Dimitar Dimitrov;Dimitar Dimitrov

  • Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: a combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology.

    Gonzalo Giribet;Daniel L. Distel;Martin Polz;Wolfgang Sterrer

  • DNA sequences from a fossil termite in Oligo-Miocene amber and their phylogenetic implications

    Rob DeSalle;John Gatesy;Ward Wheeler;David Grimaldi

  • Alignment-ambiguous nucleotide sites and the exclusion of systematic data.

    John Gatesy;Rob DeSalle;Ward Wheeler

  • On bivalve phylogeny: a high‐level analysis of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) based on combined morphology and DNA sequence data

    Gonzalo Giribet;Ward C. Wheeler

  • The Phylogeny of the Extant Chelicerate Orders

    Ward C Wheeler;Cheryl Y Hayashi

  • Arthropod Phylogeny: a Combined Approach

    Ward C. Wheeler;Paulyn Cartwright;Paulyn Cartwright;Cheryl Y. Hayashi;Cheryl Y. Hayashi

  • Phylogeny and Systematic Position of Opiliones: A Combined Analysis of Chelicerate Relationships Using Morphological and Molecular Data

    Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Ward C. Wheeler;Courtney Babbitt

  • Multiple sequence alignment in phylogenetic analysis.

    Aloysius Phillips;Daniel Janies;Ward Wheeler

  • NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE PHYLOGENY AND RANDOM OUTGROUPS

    Ward C. Wheeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Julián Faivovich
Julián Faivovich National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Célio F. B. Haddad
Célio F. B. Haddad Sao Paulo State University
James M. Carpenter
James M. Carpenter American Museum of Natural History
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
Rob DeSalle
Rob DeSalle American Museum of Natural History
Stephen C. Donnellan
Stephen C. Donnellan South Australian Museum
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo
Cheryl Y. Hayashi
Cheryl Y. Hayashi American Museum of Natural History
Gustavo Hormiga
Gustavo Hormiga George Washington University

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